Has anyone heard of a web-based frontend to apt? What I am thinking of is configuring a browser to accept some kind of pseudo-protocol such as apt://package-name
'Why' you might ask? Well, I've been thinking for a long time about different ways the archive could be organised. I've just browser through the entire devel section looking for specific tools related to comprehension that are somewhat drowned in the rest of the stuff there. If you could configure a browser in debian to accept urls of the form apt://package-name , or perhaps something more sensible, such that a debian user properly configured could click on the link and launch apt-get or aptitude or similar to install the package, then we could experiment with different ways of organising the archive through 3rd-party websites. (I would chuck together some kind of wiki-thing for tools to support code comprehension, personally.) If I were to skim over the above I'd start to get worries of 'security threat' etc. however what I am proposing is not that a website could get you to install a package hosted there, just suggest a package to be installed- you would use your normal mirrors. Erm yes, so, any ideas or opinions? Have I made myself clear or am I just rambling incoherently? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
